Joe Ralls turned down contract extension?

[jon1959]

If he has been offered 12k a week, that isn't big wages by Championship standards at all! There will be League One players on more money. The average Championship wage is 29k a week.

That figure for average Championship wage surprised me. I didn’t think it was that high - and it will drop in coming years. When I did a few searches I came up with average wage figures ranging from £7k to £35k. No idea on the real number although there will clearly be a range from Academy graduates to established ‘stars’.

[Eric the Half a Bee]

That figure for average Championship wage surprised me. I didn’t think it was that high - and it will drop in coming years. When I did a few searches I came up with average wage figures ranging from £7k to £35k. No idea on the real number although there will clearly be a range from Academy graduates to established ‘stars’.

I think it'll be interesting to see how many clubs use more of their own young talent over the next few seasons. We could end up seeing record numbers of good players starting next season without clubs as they refuse contracts worth quite a bit less than they've been used to. There will be the hope that clubs then start panicking and find ways of paying a few grand more than they intended, but there won't be many and some players will be forced into substantially reducing their income.

[Des Parrot]

That figure for average Championship wage surprised me. I didn’t think it was that high - and it will drop in coming years. When I did a few searches I came up with average wage figures ranging from £7k to £35k. No idea on the real number although there will clearly be a range from Academy graduates to established ‘stars’.

I know of the wage of a single Championship player, who is captain of his club. He was on £8k per week in 20/21 and was approached by a Premier League club, so he received an improved deal & extension to increase to £14k for season 21/22, making him one of the top earners at the club. I know this information directly through his brother.

I know this is a sample size of just one but I can’t believe that it is totally misrepresentative.